The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” is a 2026 prequel film about 16‑year‑old Haymitch Abernathy being selected for the 50th Hunger Games, the Second Quarter Quell, where each district must send twice the usual number of tributes.

The film adapts Suzanne Collins’s 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping and is set 24 years before the original Hunger Games. It serves as a sequel to The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) and a prequel to the 2012 film.